Basic Meeting Plans are designed to have minimal supplies and still hit the GSUSA Requirements. Most meetings can be done in a 90 minute time frame.
Items needed:
- Print pg 24 and cut out the four flowers, enough for each scout to take one home.
- Pen/Pencil for each scout
- One copy of Quick Questions
- Ball or small stuffed animal to toss between scouts.
- (Optional) Troop coloring supplies (markers, crayons, or colored pencils)
- (Optional) Pick an icebreaker game to play after the three requirements have been finished.
(Troops with a larger budget may want to try making a Self Care Jar instead of the Good Deed Flowers.)
Good Deed Flowers
Info Needed: Friendly and Helpful is the second line of the Girl Scout Law. Being Friendly and Helpful should first start at home. When we earn all our Petals, our Daisy uniforms will have 10 petals around the center. These Good Deed Flowers have 10 petals, ready for one of your family members to write a good deed.
Action Needed: Have each scout write (or get help to write) their name in the center part of their Good Deed Flower.
Follow Up Needed: Tell Scouts they don’t have to do all 10 good deeds in one day. “Fill up your Good Deed Flower and bring it back to Girl Scouts to show off when you have all 10 filled out. We’ll show them off at the beginning of announcements whenever someone finishes all 10!”
(Daisy Requirement 1 Earned)
Move it!
Info Needed: We are friendly and helpful each troop meeting when we are nice to our fellow Sister Scouts. When we see someone (scout or leader or guest) needing help, we step up to help where we can. But our troop is new and we’re just starting out as friends. We can be better friends when we know more about each other.
Action Needed: Start in a circle and pass the ball/small stuffed animal around the circle as they each give an answer to one of the Quick Questions. On the second question, encouraging them to get the ball around the circle as fast as they can. On the third question have them move around to different areas of the room for a longer throw needed (if nothing is breakable by a missed throw) OR have them try throwing across from them instead of passing it around the circle. Repeat the same process and keep them moving for each question.
(Daisy Requirement 2 Earned)
Community Needs
Information Needed: Communities are groups of people with something in common. Our communities can be families, school groups, Girl Scouts, or even our town/city. When it’s a large group, it’s hard to be personal friends with everyone. We can still be friendly and helpful by being kind and helping when needed.
Action Needed: Brainstorm ways the community (town/city) might need help from a Girl Scout. Pick one activity and ask them to plan it out in detail. (i.e. If they want to do a food drive, where to do they have it, who would they ask, how would they collect the food, where would it go?)
(Daisy Requirement 3 AND Brownie A World of Girls Part 3 “Tell a Story Award” Earned)
Note for Leaders – Daisies do not have to follow through with the plan to earn their petal. Just plan the details of what they could do. Brownies DO need to follow through with a plan to finish earning their A World of Girls Journey. This will be their Take Action Plan (TAP) that all journeys need. Make a date to follow through with their plans at a different meeting OR do it as an event on the weekend or similar. Daisies should also participate so they have credit for a TAP for their Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden Journey they can earn after finishing all their petals.
Meeting End
Scouts can go back to the Quick Questions game OR Color the Good Deeds Flower OR play an icebreaker game until it’s time to go home.
General Notes
Note to Leaders – No Basic Plan compiled by The Badge Archive will earn multiple badges in one level. Part of being budget friendly is not costing more than the price of one official GSUSA badge per meeting.
Some badges will take two meetings to finish. This helps scouts enjoy activities and keeps the troop budget in mind by only needing one GSUSA badge for every two meetings. Troops may choose to get a fun patch for one of the meetings if scouts want a badge/patch for every meeting. Scouts can earn the fun patch if they only attend one meeting and get a fun patch and the official badge if they go to both.
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